[linux-lvm] Whole Disk Usage with LVM ...

[AJ Lewis]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:26:59PM -0500, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote:
> On Sat Nov 16 20:07:02 2002, Goetz Bock  linux-lvm at sistina.com wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 16 '02 at 14:46, david at lownoisefloor.com wrote:
> >> I am using entire disks.  
> >Bad idea, why don't you want to at last put a partition table on it,
> >with one big partition, that uses the whole disk ... or is this what you
> >had in mind?
> Err, is there a reason why this is a bad idea? 

Well, the only thing i can think of is that the partition must be of type
8e (Linux LVM), while the whole disk only has the LVM label on it - so if
you aren't paying attention, you could (possibly) forget that the disk is
being used by LVM and write over it.  fdisk does not recognize that a whole
disk has an LVM label on it AFAIK.
 
> (The HOWTO actually gives the example of
> # pvcreate /dev/hdb
> without saying this is a bad idea; or a good one, for that matter.) 
> 
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